(1) The biographical works disagree on the place where Khalid b. al-Walid died—was it Hims (Emesa) or Madinah? A careful review of the transmitted reports may lead to a more convincing conclusion. A. Ibn al-Mubarak, in Kitab al-Jihad, cites Hammad b. Zayd → Abd Allah b. al-Mukhtar → Asim b. Bahdala → Abu Waʾil (Hammad was unsure about the last link). The report ends: “When Khalid died, ʿUmar attended the funeral and said: ‘There is no harm if the women of the house of al-Walid shed tears for Khalid, so long as it is not accompanied by naqʿan or laqlaqa.’ ” B. Yahya al-Qattan narrates the same content through Sufyan → Habib b. Abi Thabit → Abu Waʾil. C. Abu Hudhayfa, in al-Mubtadaʾ wa-l-Futuh, quoting Muhammad b. Ishaq, relates that when Khalid died, ʿUmar walked in his funeral while Khalid’s mother lamented: “You are better than a thousand thousand of men when the faces of warriors fall.” Saif b. ʿUmar gives a similar account in al-Ridda wa-l-Futuh, but with a weak chain. D. Ibn Saʿd transmits through Kathir b. Hisham → Jaʿfar b. Burqan → Yazid b. al-Asamm: “When Khalid b. al-Walid died his mother wept over him. ʿUmar said: ‘Mother of Khalid, is it Khalid and his reward you mourn? I adjure you: do not stop until your hands are blackened with dye.’ ” Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar deems this isnad sound in al-Isaba. E. Al-Bukhari, in his Sahih, cites ʿUmar’s statement: “Let them weep over Abu Sulayman so long as there is no naqʿan or laqlaqa.” Ibn Hajar notes in Fath al-Bari 3/161 that al-Bukhari connected the chain in al-Tarikh al-Awsat via al-Aʿmash → Shaqiq: when Khalid died, the women of Banu al-Mughira gathered to mourn him; someone proposed that ʿUmar send to forbid them, whereupon he uttered the above words. Al-Bukhari also records it in his Tarikh 1/46 through ʿUmar b. Hafs → his father → al-Aʿmash → … (chain continues).